[Amps] me not an idiot

[Dave White]

I am that idiot.  I drive a car that's capable of 160mph even though the sped limit here is 70mph.  I engineer towers so that they'd withstand 150mph winds even though the most we get here is 70mph.  

Get the drift? It's called over engineering.  Safety margin.  Firms from Collins to Mercedes Benz made their name by doing it.  So far I haven't blown a car/amplifier up and no towers have blown into the Trent....

I await the flames with interest :-)

Dave G0OIL 

-----Original Message-----
From: "Herzog" <herzog at frontiernet.net>
To: "Ham-amps" <amps at contesting.com>
Sent: 29/03/2010 00:43
Subject: [Amps] me not an idiot

RE:  Tell me guys.
Who's idiot enough to build a 5 kilowatt amplifier and use it at the 1,5 kW
level?
Are we kidding ourselves or not?
Alex	4Z5KS
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People wouldn't want to admit public ally to running what used to be 
called a "California Kilowatt"; that would be proving the idiot part.
K2LB
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